MORNING REPORT

Stage

January 25, 1988|RICK SHERWOOD and TODD KARR | Arts and entertainment reports from The Times, national and international news services and the nation's press

Contrary to published reports, you can get good seats for "Phantom of the Opera," the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that officially opens on Broadway on Tuesday--you just have to be willing to pay $175 for the $50 ducat. That's what the Big Apple's phantom ticket brokers--illegal scalpers--are asking and getting on the streets.